Sarah Darling

Described as “a tireless force of musical curiosity, skill, and enthusiasm” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Sarah Darling enjoys a varied musical career that spans many centuries, styles, and roles. Equally at home on viola and baroque violin, she performs as a member of A Far Cry, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, the Boston Early Music Festival, Les Bostonades, Gut Reaction, Musical Offering, Antico Moderno, Newton Baroque, Sarasa, the Carmel Bach Festival, and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Sarah studied at Harvard, Juilliard, Amsterdam, Freiburg, and New England Conservatory, working with James Dunham, Karen Tuttle, Wolfram Christ, Nobuko Imai, and Kim Kashkashian. She has recorded old and new music for Linn, Paladino, Azica, MSR, Centaur Records, plus a solo album on Naxos and a Grammy-nominated CD on Crier Records. Sarah is active as a teacher and coach, with a special interest in body mechanics and musical rhetoric, and serves as co-director of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra. Praised for “absolute concentration and astonishing precision” (Badischer Zeitung), and “sympathy and spirit” (Hub Review) she’s also been dubbed “as always… the one to up the ante.” (Intelligencer) Sarah regularly shares her thoughts on music at her blog, Listening Deliberately. www.listeningdeliberately.com.